Dyspeptic retired Marine wife/tech wench attempts to enlighten the great unwashed of the blogosphere while dodging snarky commentary from the local knavery.

April 29, 2009

"The Peasants Are Revolting" Caption Contest

Asked about fiscal discipline and entitlements reform, Obama seemed to be repressing a smile as he jabbed critics of his spending plans.

"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and "you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

“But,” Obama continued, “let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."

Because if there's one thing our new Commander in Thief can't abide, it's game-playing. Translation for the irony impaired:

"Pipe down, Peasants. I won."

And at any rate, the Congressional Budget Office has clearly shown us that nothing about the Recovery Act could possibly cause the slightest concern to any reasonable human being. Why, the projected increases to the federal deficit resulting from the Recovery Act alone are just trivial:

* $185 billion over the remaining months of fiscal year 2009

* $399 billion in 2010

* $134 billion in 2011

But as some wag once remarked, a picture is worth a thousand shell games. The federal deficit in 2000 constant dollars, from 1900 to 2010:

The deficit will increase by $787 billion over the 2009-2019 period.

Here is the deficit as a % of GDP for the same period. Considering the queues of po' folk lined up outside soup kitchens everywhere positively a-quiver at the thought of cramming their mouths with distressful bread, it's clear that emergency measures were warranted. Frankly, we're just thankful to be rescued from the wasteful spending and failed policies we inherited from that "other guy":

Yep. The sheer misery quotient makes it downright understandable for the feds to go all Grapes of Wrath on our collective tuckii. Really, we ought to just thank our lucky stars we have someone smart who can explain this mess to us in language we can understand.

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On last week's Country Music themed episode of American Political Idol, Barack Obama wowed the crowd with an original song "We could have a serious conversation if you cousin humping bitterly clinging rednecks would stop watching FoxNews".

Brothers and sisters, I ask you to welcome a new senior staff member to my administration.

A man I immediately recognized as being cut from the same bolt of cloth as was I.

A man unequaled in the art of communications and fund-raising, so it is with great pleasure and much anticipation that I present to you, my new chief of communications and website campaign contributions coordinator.

...and next I would like to bless the media, for whom just a few months ago would pillory my predesessor for not rushing to defend his critics from desparaging comments, but for whom now allows me to directly insult my critics as having fabricated and illigitimate concerns without nary a word of disapproval.

This comes as no surprise to those of us who have lived in Illinois. Illinois government's function is to take money from taxpayers and funnel it to friends and supporters of the political class. The concept that the expenditures should benefit the taxpayers and not the political class is a foreign one here. Taxpayers who dare actually question their leaders and attempt to make them respond are generally either ignored or harassed into bankruptcy, silence or both. Peasant revolts are frowned upon in Illinois and are generally put down mercilessly.

President Obama's political career in Illinois was one of accomodating powerful interests, not challenging or changing them. Now that he has the power, it's no surprise that he intends to use it in the same fashion that he helped it be used up to this point.

After spending 10 minutes expounding on his policy that the US needs to talk with foreign dictators, even those who openly seek our destruction, Mr Obama points out for the crowd the one group he says he will not talk to: Fox News.

-“But,” Obama continued, “let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."-

For years, we kept hearing "Bush lied! (exclamation point mandatory)" and although no examples that ever held water were given, we understood that lying was a Bad Thing. I guess that changed on 1/20/09, since O-man lies every time he opens his mouth and never gets called on it.

Ok, it's been a really craptastic week so it's possible that my mind is going. But can I ask where the post that was above this one went? There *was* a post above this one, right? I"m not just imagining things?

One more for the road:
"At the seismic research lab, the machines began to record highs and lows resembling seismic activity. Turns out it was a false alarm. Obama was just giving a speech on the economy, using his hands to illustrate his key points."